Online education degree?
26-April-2008
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Careers in Science
28-February-2008
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Central Guidance Research Forum November 2007 meeting
20-December-2007
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Central Guidance Research Forum November 2007 meeting
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Learning from European IAG Innovation
08-October-2007
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Since 1992 Careers Europe, an organisation based in Bradford that offers a range of services and resources to the guidance community in the United Kingdom and further afield, have been part of a large European network with access to various funding streams. The seminar provided an overview of the projects in which they are currently involved, provided practical tips for those seeking European funding and explained how practitioners can become involved in the various projects. For further information, please see Andy's PowerPoint slides above. If you have been involved in a European project, please share your experience with other practitioners by responding to this below.
Further information on the CGRF is available from the CeGS website.
Career guidance overseas
17-September-2007
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Career Services: A Review in an International Perspective
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Career guidance in the Mediterranean region
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Education and training have been identified as one of the key instruments for the promotion of social stability and economic prosperity in the Mediterranean region in a number of policy documents and bilateral cooperation programmes under the Barcelona Process. Among other measures to support this process, a special regional MEDA programme – Education and Training for Employment (MEDA-ETE) – was launched by the European Commission (EuropeAid Cooperation Office), and is being implemented by the European Training Foundation (ETF) between 2005 and 2008. This project aims to support 10 Mediterranean Partners – Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip – in the design of relevant education and training policies that can contribute to promote employment through a regional approach.
When the MEDA-ETE project was designed, many of the 10 Mediterranean Partners expressed the interest and need to better understand the career guidance services in the region and to identify existing good policies and practices both in and outside the European Union. As a result, in 2006, a specific component of the project was dedicated to career guidance in the Mediterranean region. It has generated a number of outputs, such as country and cross-country analyses of career guidance policies as well as the establishment of a regional network of policy-makers in career guidance, supported by a virtual community/discussion forum on guidance.
The analysis was built upon previous experience with career guidance reviews of the OECD, the European Commission (Directorate-General for Education and Culture), Cedefop, ETF and the World Bank, and developed further the research methodology by paying particular attention to the socio-economic and cultural context of the Mediterranean region and its impact and limitations on career guidance services.
Also attached is another recent report from Tony Watts, titled 'Career Services: A Review in an International Perspective'. This paper reviews the all age careers service in New Zealand and details the five main challenges facing the development of the service.
Learning from European IAG Innovation
28-August-2007
A date for your diaries! A CGRF seminar, titled Learning from European IAG Innovation, will be held at the University of Derby on Friday 28th September 2007 from 2.00-4.00pm.
This seminar will be facilitated by Andy Shorey, Project Assistant at Careers Europe, an organisation that offers a range of services and resources to the guidance community and educational institutions in the United Kingdom and further a field. Further information regarding Careers Europe is available from www.careerseurope.co.uk. Andy will introduce participants to the European Commission’s new Integrated Lifelong Learning Programme, which will run from 2007 to 2012, and explain how guidance practitioners and researchers can become involved in elements of the programme. In addition, Deirdre Hughes, Director of CeGS and Head of the Research and Knowledge Transfer Unit (RKTU), will introduce the European Guidance and Counselling Research Forum (ECGRF), funded by Leonardo. The Forum offers transnational perspectives on equl opportunities in support of lifelong learning. This is a highly innovative development which uses weblogs and social bookmarking to support professionals and students in their work.
To book a place at this event, please email Jennifer Dean at J.Dean1@derby.ac.uk or telephone 01332 591267. There is no charge to attend this event.
Effective transitions for Year 8 sudents
17-August-2007
Based on fieldwork conducted in Lancashire between May and October 2006, the findings of this research indicate that gaps remain in provision for Year 7, 8 and 9 students. This has implications in light of the curriculum and qualification reforms introduced as part of the 14-19 Education and Skills White Paper (DfES, 2005), which will see young people choosing personalised pathways that suit them and form the basis for their progression. With increased choice and complexity, young people need good quality information, advice and guidance (IAG) to ensure they are effectively equipped with the skills they need; however, in the absence of a clear strategy and curriculum for careers education and guidance (CEG), they supplement their knowledge and understanding from unmediated sources including family and friends. The full Occasional Paper can be downloaded from the CeGS website at www.derby.ac.uk/cegs
A date for your diaries! A Central Guidance Research Forum (CGRF) seminar at the University of Derby on Thursday 15th November 2007 will further explore parental influence on young people's transitions. The seminar, entitled 'Parents: A Positive Influence to Career Decisions?', will present a thematic review across a range of recent research projects undertaken by the Centre. This event is free to attend - please contact CeGS for further information.
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research
09-August-2007
My son is doing a thesis on the global road haulage, shipping and air freight. Trying to get free research off the web in impossible. Everywhere we go there is an huge charge for this. Anyone got any idea's where one would be able to go for this??
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Implications for IAG under new Children's Trusts?
12-June-2007
Who cares about career?
31-May-2007
'Who cares about career?': the theme of Career Guidance Week 2007 aims to stimulate a debate on attitudes towards the concept of ‘career’. As a starter some key challenges to the career guidance world are:
- Is ‘career’ always to be the property of the socially included?
- More young people are immersed in careers education at school today and it seems that relatively more young graduates are rejecting the traditional graduate career routes and looking for self-fulfilment in ‘wanderlust’. Are these two trends related? Is there a dichotomy here?
- How can managers balance the managerial agenda and ethics?
- Does ‘career’ make sense to some older workers having to find ways to keep financially afloat following redundancy or retirement?
- Is managing a career still possible in days of tumultuous change?
- Is there a virtual careers adviser and a virtual career?
- Do guidance practitioners have a career?
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the above and why? Post your comments below for the opportunity to engage in this important debate and inform the agenda for Guidance Week. For further information about the event, visit the CeGS website or contact the Centre directly by emailing cegsenquiry@derby.ac.uk
